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Springsteen's new memoir is part seance and part keg party

Riding shotgun with Bruce Springsteen in his new memoir Born To Run is long, ecstatic, exhausting, filled with peaks and ...

Bruce Springsteen's song lyrics have injected more drama and mystery into the myths of the American road than any figure since Jack Kerouac. He knows this, of course. So it's one of the running jokes in his big, loose, rangy and intensely satisfying new memoir, Born to Run (what else was he going to call it?), that he didn't begin to drive until he was well into his 20s.

Turning Pages

US writer Lionel Shriver.

Lionel Shriver takes mischievous pleasure in attacking arguments she considers politically correct. And that's where trouble starts.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's book is still the No.1 bestseller in Australia.

Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton keep their spot on top of the Australian bestseller charts.

A bulimia of things

For Break Down, Michael Landy systematically catalogued and destroyed everything he owned.

"Downsizing", "purging", "editing" are all buzzword cures for getting rid of material excess.